VMware lays down corporate IT marker

Paul Maritz

If anyone could understand the threat from a competitive onslaught by Microsoft, it is Paul Maritz, reports Richards Waters of FT.com.

The chief executive of VMware, the hottest software startup in the new era of "cloud computing," Maritz was himself a top Microsoft executive in the 1990s, and ultimately responsible for such landmark products as the Windows 95 operating system. Read more

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